Monteith
John Austin
(English, active 1678–1701)
1687-1688
Medium/TechniqueSilver, flat-chased ornament
DimensionsHeight x diameter: 15.2 × 29.2 cm (6 × 11 1/2 in.)
Troy weight: 37.7 troy ounces
Troy weight: 37.7 troy ounces
Credit LineTheodora Wilbour Fund in memory of Charlotte Beebe Wilbour and partial gift of Anne H. and Frederick Vogel III
Accession number2018.114
On View
On viewClassificationsSilver hollowware
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The notched rim of a monteith, a form first mentioned around 1680, held the stems of wine glasses as they chilled in ice water.
ProvenanceBy 1902, George Edward Martin (b. 1829 - d. 1905), England [see note 1]; by descent to his son Elliot George Bromley Martin (b. 1866 - d. 1946), Ham Court, Upton-on-Severn; March 26, 1924, E. Bromley Martin sale, Christie's, London, lot 106. Gerard Henry Craig Sellar (b. 1871 - d. 1929), Ardtornish House, Morvern, Scotland; March 19, 1930, posthumous Gerard Craig Sellar sale, Christie's, London, lot 103. 1981, How of Edinburgh, Ltd. (dealers), London; October 1981, sold by How of Edinburgh to Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Vogel, III, Milwaukee, WI; 2018, sold by Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Vogel to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 25, 2018)
NOTES:
[1] Mr. G. E. Martin loaned the bowl to the exhibition Old Silver-Work Chiefly English from the XVth to the XVIIIth Centuries (London, 1902), lot 35.
NOTES:
[1] Mr. G. E. Martin loaned the bowl to the exhibition Old Silver-Work Chiefly English from the XVth to the XVIIIth Centuries (London, 1902), lot 35.
Mid 7th–8th century A.D.